Built backwards from race day
Eight stations, eight 1-km runs. Sled push and pull with explicit progression, wall balls scaled to your bodyweight, run intervals that match the race.
[ Codsall · West Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Codsall,
built around your race.
There are 16 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Codsall, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing and JD Gyms among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, roughly 38 km away, and every session is dated backwards from it. Built by HYROX Elite 15 athlete Ben Sutherland. See your Week 1 before you decide anything.
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- HYROX Elite 15 athlete
- Multiple Pro Doubles wins
- Best Doubles 49-51 min
- Coaches beginner to pro
Programming with a race at the end of it.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Tell us your race date and every session lands on a calendar day. Miss a week and Sunday's rebuild absorbs it. The plan bends, the race date doesn't.
An Elite 15 athlete behind the programming
Ben races in the HYROX Elite 15 Doubles with his brother Harry. The programming you follow is the structure he uses, scaled to your level.
[ Training in Codsall ]
The ground you actually train on in Codsall.
Where to run your 1 km repeats
A Hyrox is eight 1 km runs with a station between each. Running them on flat, measured, repeatable ground is worth more than any single session you will do indoors. These are the closest measured 5 km courses to you.
- Perton Playing Fields parkrun4 km
- Wolverhampton parkrun · West Park6.1 km
- East Park parkrun8.8 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Codsall, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 38 km from Codsall in a straight line, which for most people is an early train rather than a hotel. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Codsall to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Codsall ]
Where you can train in Codsall.
Codsall has plenty of choice, which means you can be picky. The thing to look for is not a Hyrox sticker on the door, it is a sled lane long enough to push on, a spare wall for wall balls, and a rower nobody queues for at 6pm.
Chains with a site here: Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, JD Gyms, The Gym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Codsall Leisure Centresports centre0.9 km
- Codsall Leisure Centergym0.9 km
- Barnhurst Pitchessports centre2.7 km
- Aldersley Leisure Villagesports centre4.4 km
- National Indoor Shooting Centresports centre4.5 km
- Wolverhampton Lawn Tennis and Squash Clubsports centre4.8 km
- Wolverhampton Racecoursesports centre4.8 km
- Sir Jack Hayward Training Groundsports centre5 km
- Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeinggym5.3 km
- Tennis Courtssports centre6.2 km
- JD Gymsgym6.4 km
- Central Bathssports centre6.5 km
16 sites within reach of the centre of Codsall; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Codsall. We have not audited what equipment each site holds, so treat this as where to start ringing rather than a verified kit list. Gym data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
[ Training in Codsall ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Codsall.
Where to train in Codsall
16 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Codsall. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Codsall Leisure Centre, Codsall Leisure Center and Barnhurst Pitches, the nearest of them about 0.9 km out. Ring before you join and ask two questions: is there floor space to push a sled, and can you throw a ball at a wall. Those answers decide more than any membership tier.
Codsall Leisure Centre and Barnhurst Pitches are listed as sports centres rather than gyms. Multi-use sites are usually where the floor space is, which tends to be where the sled and carry work ends up happening.
Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, JD Gyms and The Gym have sites here, so an existing membership may already cover you. If you are joining from scratch, a rolling monthly contract is worth the few extra pounds while you work out which sessions you actually turn up for.
Where to run around Codsall
You are well served for measured running around Codsall. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Perton Playing Fields parkrun, Wolverhampton parkrun and East Park parkrun are the closest three, Perton Playing Fields parkrun being about 4 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
A Hyrox is eight kilometre runs with a station between each, which means the skill being tested is running on tired legs, not running fresh. Do at least one session a week where the running comes after the hard work rather than before it.
Racing from Codsall
NEC Birmingham is roughly 38 km from Codsall, close enough to be a normal morning rather than a trip. That is the one to build towards for a first race: no hotel, no unfamiliar bed, no early train.
Whichever race you enter, the date is what makes a programme a programme. Twelve weeks is the standard build, sixteen if you are starting from very little running, and every session lands on a calendar day rather than a week number.
[ Near Codsall ]
Plenty of people train one town over, whether that is a better gym, a flatter route, or simply the one on the way home from work.
What Hyrox coaching costs in Codsall
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Codsall
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
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Tailoredto you
- Full week-by-week personalised programme
- A fraction of what weekly PT sessions add up to
- Free consultation first, cancel anytime
Local rates vary; typical advertised prices, not quotes. Suth Performance is a programming platform, not a substitute for in-person supervision where you need it.
Common questions
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